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Brazilian Supreme Court Concludes Trial Reshaping OSPs' Civil Liability For Third Party Content

Brazil's Supreme Court has finalized a landmark ruling that fundamentally alters how online service providers are held liable for third-party content...

Brazil Media & IT

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Licks Attorneys

A obrigatoriedade da guarda da porta lógica de origem

O Decreto 12.975/2026 estabelece novas regras para plataformas digitais no Brasil, incluindo a obrigatoriedade de guarda da porta lógica de origem dos usuários junto aos registros de IP.

Brazil Media & IT

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Licks Attorneys

Brazil Issues Rules For Digital Platforms

Brazil has introduced comprehensive new regulations for digital platforms through two federal decrees that fundamentally reshape platform liability, content moderation requirements, and protections for women in digital spaces. The rules establish strict timelines for removing criminal content, mandate systemic risk assessments, and create presumed liability for unlawful content distributed through advertisements or artificial networks. How will these sweeping changes impact platform operations and user safe

Brazil Media & IT

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Licks Attorneys

Sideline Conversations: Inside The C-Suite With Brazil (Video)

Sideline Conversations takes listeners beyond the pitch to explore the legal and commercial issues shaping FIFA World Cup 2026.

Brazil Media & IT

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Gowling WLG

Sócia do KLA comenta tributação da Copa 2026 no JOTA

Brazil Media & IT

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KLA Advogados

Argentina’s Government Moves To Repeal Front-Of-Pack Labeling Law

Argentina Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

2026 As A Turning Point: Brazil's Digital ECA And The Reshaping Of Advertising And Privacy In The Data Economy

Brazil Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

Brazilian Government Sets New Rules For Online Platforms

Brazil Media & IT

Rayes e Fagundes Advogados

CONAR Publishes New Edition Of The Digital Influencer Marketing And Advertising Guide

Brazil Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

CONAR Updates Guidelines On Advertising With Influencers

Brazil Media & IT

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KLA Advogados

CONAR atualiza guia de publicidade com influenciadores

Brazil Media & IT

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KLA Advogados

Costa Rica Enacts New Digital Services And E-Commerce Law

Costa Rica Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

New CONARP Paper On Ambush Marketing

Argentina Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

Ventanilla Electrónica En Materia De Turismo

Mexico Media & IT

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Contracts Executed Between Mexican Companies And Foreigners – The New Mexican Customs Requirements

Mexico International

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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Insolvency In The Fashion Industry: The Hidden Value Of Brands In Crisis Companies In Brazil

Brazil Insolvency

Rayes e Fagundes Advogados

Manifestación de Valor Electrónica (MVE): Reforma Aduanera

Mexico International

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Vazquez Tercero & Zepeda

Hot Topics In International Trade: Mexico's Electronic Value Manifest (Manifestación De Valor Electrónica Or MVE)

Mexico International

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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Requirements For Filing A Declaration Of Actual Use By Owners Of International Registrations Designating Mexico

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Advertising, Marketing & Branding

Greenwashing no mercado de carbono tem primeira condenação no Brasil

A 6ª Vara Cível de São Paulo condenou uma empresa a R$ 5 milhões por danos morais coletivos devido à comunicação ambiental insuficiente sobre créditos de carbono voluntários. O tribunal considerou que o uso de expressões genéricas como "compensação" e "neutralização", sem metodologia clara de cálculo, rastreabilidade dos créditos ou vínculo entre valores pagos e projetos específicos, configura publicidade enganosa

Brazil Consumer

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KLA Advogados

Argentina’s Government Moves To Repeal Front-Of-Pack Labeling Law

Argentina's Executive branch has submitted a bill to the National Congress seeking to fully repeal the country's Healthy Eating Promotion Law (Law No. 27,642), widely known as the Front Labeling Law.

Argentina Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

2026 As A Turning Point: Brazil's Digital ECA And The Reshaping Of Advertising And Privacy In The Data Economy

The consolidation of the digital economy has profoundly transformed how children and adolescents socialize, consume, and access information.

Brazil Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

Brazilian Government Sets New Rules For Online Platforms

Brazil Media & IT

Rayes e Fagundes Advogados

Amendment To The Federal Copyright Law And The Federal Labor Law Regarding The Rights Of Performing Artists

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Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa

CONAR Publishes New Edition Of The Digital Influencer Marketing And Advertising Guide

Brazil Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

CONAR atualiza guia de publicidade com influenciadores

Brazil Media & IT

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KLA Advogados

CONAR Updates Guidelines On Advertising With Influencers

Brazil Media & IT

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KLA Advogados

Costa Rica Enacts New Digital Services And E-Commerce Law

Costa Rica Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

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Telecoms, Mobile & Cable Communications

Mexico’s National Antimonopoly Commission Issues Draft 2026-2030 Institutional Program, Signals Priority Enforcement Sectors

Mexico's National Antimonopoly Commission has published a draft 2026-2030 Institutional Program outlining enforcement priorities and strategic objectives that may reshape competition policy across six key sectors.

Mexico Anti-trust

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Nueva Configuración de Juzgados y Tribunales Federales Administrativos Especializados en Competencia Económica y Radiodifusión

En cumplimiento de la reforma judicial aprobada en 2024, el Poder Judicial de la Federación (PJF) formalizó en septiembre de 2025 la nueva integración de los órganos...

Mexico Anti-trust

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Novas penas mais severas para crimes contra infraestrutura essencial

Nova lei aumenta punições para furto, roubo e receptação de cabos usados em serviços como energia, telecomunicações e internet...

Brazil Criminal

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KLA Advogados

Major Antitrust And Economic Competition Reform In Mexico

Mexico Anti-trust

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Dentons Lopez Velarde

Understanding Mexico's New Antitrust Reforms

Mexico Anti-trust

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Vazquez Tercero & Zepeda

Reforma en Telecomunicaciones: ¿Riesgo para el T-MEC y el Comercio Exterior Mexicano?

Mexico Media & IT

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Vazquez Tercero & Zepeda

Alerta Laboral: Actualizan Los Valores Para La Compensación Del Consumo De Internet Y Electricidad Para El Teletrabajo

Peru Media & IT

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Iriarte & Asociados

Extinción de Organismos Autónomos y Reguladores

Mexico Anti-trust

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Greenberg Traurig

Constitutional Reform On Organizational Simplification

Mexico Government

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Dentons Lopez Velarde

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Broadcasting: Film, TV & Radio

Mexico’s National Antimonopoly Commission Issues Draft 2026-2030 Institutional Program, Signals Priority Enforcement Sectors

Mexico's National Antimonopoly Commission has published a draft 2026-2030 Institutional Program outlining enforcement priorities and strategic objectives that may reshape competition policy across six key sectors.

Mexico Anti-trust

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Decree Granting A Tax Incentive For Film And Audiovisual Production.

On February 16, 2026, the "Decree Granting a Tax Incentive for Film and Audiovisual Production" was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (Diario Oficial de la Federación).

Mexico Media & IT

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Brasília em Pauta - Edição Nº 222

O "Brasília em Pauta" é um boletim semanal preparado pela equipe de Contencioso de Brasília, contendo os principais casos a serem julgados pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF)...

Brazil Litigation

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Mayer Brown

Nueva Configuración de Juzgados y Tribunales Federales Administrativos Especializados en Competencia Económica y Radiodifusión

Mexico Anti-trust

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Protección Del Patrimonio Cultural De Las Comunidades Indígenas En Música, Cine Y Televisión

Mexico Government

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The Exception For Current Events

Colombia Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

Publicación De Insubsistencia De Los Acuerdos Que Modifican Los Lineamientos Para El Otorgamiento De Certificados De Energías Limpias

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Greenberg Traurig

Reglamento De La Ley Federal De Telecomunicaciones Radiodifusión En Materia De Capacidad Satelital Como Reserva Del Estado

Mexico Media & IT

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Greenberg Traurig

Reglamento de la Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones Radiodifusión en materia de capacidad satelital como reserva del Estado

Mexico Media & IT

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

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Music and the Arts

La línea finita que une el Derecho con el Arte.

El viaje de un músico desde su infancia tocando la percusión hasta la formación de Nirvana, una banda de rock progresivo en la década de 1970, explora cómo la música y el derecho se entrelazaron a través de los derechos de autor y la propiedad intelectual. La narración examina las difíciles decisiones entre la pasión artística y la carrera profesional, revelando cómo caminos aparentemente divergentes pueden, en última instancia, converger.

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Amendment On Declarations Of Tangible And Intangible Cultural Heritage

On November 19, 2025, the Gaceta Parlamentaria published the initiative titled "Amendment to various provisions of the General Law of Culture and Cultural Rights...

Mexico Media & IT

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OLIVARES

Protección Del Patrimonio Cultural De Las Comunidades Indígenas En Música, Cine Y Televisión

¿Cómo es la protección de las leyes mexicanas al patrimonio cultural de los pueblos y comunidades indígenas por el hecho de que se filmen bienes culturales?

Mexico Government

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OLIVARES

World Intellectual Property Day Highlights The Creative Industries

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KLA Advogados

Dia Mundial da Propriedade Intelectual destaca indústrias criativas

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KLA Advogados

Music In The Middle Of The Controversy

Colombia Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

The Quantificatión Of Damages In Copyright Cases Related To Music.

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OLIVARES

Political Advertising In Brazil - Politicians Versus Musicians: Two Battles, Two Results

Brazil Media & IT

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)

Extinction Of Public Trusts Related To Culture In Mexico

Mexico Media & IT

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Latest Videos

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La Gestión De Mercadeo Al Emprender (Video)

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CLD Legal

Entrevista a Lic. Fabián González de la Mora para Grupo Fórmula Radio y Televisión (Video)

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Clarke, Modet & Co

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